Bicorn (tool)

Bicorn

The bicorn , like the stone ax , is a two-handed hand tool of a stonemason that dates back to the Middle Ages. It is used for trimming rough blocks and for rough surface processing on soft stone (marble, limestone, sandstone). The diamond-shaped metal body sits on a handle like the stone ax, but instead of flat blades it has a point at each end. The weight of the device is 3 to 5 kilograms.

Similar tools

• Point iron
• Dog tooth
• Coronel

jobs

• Stonecutters
• Stonemason
• Stone sculptor

literature

• Reiner Flassig: Historische Steinverarbeitung , p. 310 ff. In: Bildungszentrum für das Steinmetz- und Bildhauerhandwerk (Ed.), Steinmetzpraxis, The manual for the daily work with natural stone, 2nd revised edition, Ebner Verlag, Ulm 1994. ISBN 3- 87188-138-4 .
• Karl Friedrich: Stone processing in its development from the 11th to the 18th century . Filser, Augsburg 1932.
• Peter Völkle: Work planning and stone processing in the Middle Ages . Ebner Verlag, Ulm 2016. ISBN 978-3-87188-258-6 .
• Wolfgang Müller-Wiener: Greek construction in antiquity . Beck, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-406-32993-4 .

See also: stone surface